The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-08
Fashion Notes.

Pale drab is the popular color for dress
ing tailor suits.
Black srlrah is the proper silk for half
mourning frocks.
The fashionable handkerchief is Of the
color of the costume.
Spangles enrich most of the fancy work
done with the needle.
Cream laceS trim poppy red India or
China silks very tastefuliy
Green velvet dog collars are fashionably
worn with black lace gowns.
Full soft drapery over shoulders and bust
is seen in all the light lace, lawn and gauze
fabrics
Lawn dresses are made with much-fes-
tooned overs1irts bordered with Valen-
ciennes.
Drab and nauve are found to be good
combination in q dress street toilet or for
carriage wear.
Embroidered and beaded tulles are used
for the full vests that are so becoming to
slender figures.
Satins are going out of favor, and, there
fore, are very cheap, but they make lovely
underdresses for lace frOcks.
The coat sleeve is modified. It is made
Iooser above the elbow, and at the inner, not
the outer, seam at the wrist.
Bustles of steel hoops are covered with
white or scarlet English morocco, cut out in
scallops and stitched in rows.
Broad bands of white stitching on black
kid gloves are de rigeur with white and
black toilets of high ceremony.
The burnouse shawl drapery and the jabot
folds are the favorite arrangement for the
back of the skirts of spring dresses.
Helotrope cashmere gowns are draped
nd laC~ n
sleeves have the deep cuffs of the same vel
vet.
The popular long apron draperies are those
pleated into the belt or waist line and falling
In long folds in front of the side panels,
thereby increasing the slenderness of the
figure.
White or cream pearl picot or feather
edged ribbon is the inside pleating preferred
| for the sleeves and collars of dreSsy frocks
this spring.
| Silk embroidered handkerchiefs are being
made into bonnets, with the four corners
standing up like ears. two on either side,
one put little lower thar the other.
The Langtry hustle, which folds up when
the wearer leans back against anything and
| returns to its shape when relieved of the
pressure, is the correct dress improver.
| Heliotrope is undoubtedly the color of the
season There are ten different shades.
-Four of them are called "anemone," two
reddish shades ''plunl" and the darkest
"dahlia
Plain linen collars and cuffs are in much
| demand now They are quite taking the
place of the perishabe ''frllls'' women have
worn so much, and they are certainly much
| heater looking
''Bengalne," in small reps, is a novelty in
summer silks, and is of very light weight
1t will be made up with the same materials
in stripes or checks, or with cashmere of the
prevailing color.
A hat for a little girl is of black Milan
straw with two bands of narrow Picot rib
bon about the crown of a dark blue and
heliotrope shade, with high punched loops
of the same in front
A pretty gown lately seen was of fawn
colored cashmere, the waist Of the polonaise
laid entirely in very fine tucks. The
sleeves were tucked to the elbow and below
that to the wrist leaving at the elbow q
puff, The polonaise effect was somewhat
concealed by soft sashes about the hips
knotted on the tournure.
Sailor straw hats will be popular agar
this summer, but with a different trimming
The brims are wider and straighter, anc
those of fine straw are best liked. These
have broad band about the crown, Ions
stiff loops of ribbon little to the left anc
pointing forward, with two long narrow
wings set on in the same manner.
At ball given by the Jockey Club to the
prettiest women in Paris at the Hotel Cen
tennial, Mile. Jane Granier wore q most
deliciously devised evening wrap composed
of embroiderieS in pale blue with crystal
beads and bugles on silver net ground
work, finished with ruffies of silver lace anc
lined throughout with pale blue silk.
1t is well to remember that with plair
hanging, tue ed or pleated skirts, especially
on summer dresses of a naturally clingine
| limp nature, should be worn unkerskirts OF
silk, organdie, or fine linen lawn which has
a rather stiff dressing, upon which the airy
fabric composing the ground should b.
mounted. The hem of the skirt proper
should fall over a narrow "depaSsunm very
finely pleated, and set at the edge Of the lln.
derskirt. This throws out the foot of the
dress skirt and keeps it away for the feet
and also gives it more graceful appear.
ance.